boatload
Meanings
Plural: boatloads
Noun
- the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car
- "he imported wine by the boatload"
- Cargo or passengers that fill a boat.
- A large quantity.
Origin / Etymology
From boat + load. Notionally, because the commodity in question might have constituted the entire load of a cargo ship or boat.
Synonyms
abundance, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, bucketful, bucketload, bumload, busload, butt-ton, buttload, carload, cartload, crapload, deal, fuckload, fuckton, fuckwad, great deal, hantle, heap, hecatomb, helluvalot, horseload, lashings, load, lot, mampus, many, mass, metric fuckton, metric shitload, mickle, mountain, muckle, multiplicity, multitude, pile, ream, shedload, shipload, shitful, shitload, shitton, slew, sum, superflux, ton, trainload, truckload, tun, vaultful, wagonload
Scrabble Score: 11
boatload is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordboatload is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
boatload is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary